25 Biggest WTF Moments From 2016 Movies

7. "F***headistan" - London Has Fallen

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While talking to terrorist Kamran (Waleed Zuaiter) over a walkie talkie, Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) calls him "Cameron" and drops the immortal one-liner, "Why don't you boys pack up your s*** and head back to F***headistan or wherever it is you're from?"

On one hand it's a hilariously ridiculous one-liner, but it's also massively racist and basically typifies the sentiment that drives these movies to massive box office returns: cathartic, vengeful violence against foreign insurgents.

Nobody's saying Butler's character should be cordial to these bad guys, but the whole scene just smacks of cultural insensitivity and is, frankly, rather embarrassing.

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